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yuridia
Mesopotamian
Question | Answer |
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What system that is a community used to produce and distribute goods and resources? | Economy |
As early cities grew in size and power, some of them became centers of what? | The Civilization |
A _________ is a supply of something that can used as needed what is it? | It is a resource |
A third common feature of a civilization was an established ______ or a set of share beliefs what was it? | Religion |
A fifth feature of early civilizations was a system of what? | Social Classes |
The ________ is a religion of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped what was it? | The Fertile Crescent |
Most trades were done by what? | Barter |
The Fertile Crescent included what? | Mesopotamia |
Like most ancient people, the Sumerians practiced what? | Polytheism |
The Sumerians used technology to ________, or supply water to, their crops what was it? | The Irrigate |
In larger Sumerians cities, temples were pyramid-shapes brick towers known as? | Ziggurat |
A _______ is an independent state that included a city and its surrounding territory what was it? | A City-State |
By 3400 B.C., Sumerians priest had created a new writing system called __________? | Cuneiform |
An _______ is a state containing several countries or territory. | Empire |
An _____ is an independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal. | Ally |
A _______ is an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture | Cultural Trait |
Today Hammurabi is best remember for his creation of _________ a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire. | Hammurabi's Code |
________, or the idea that all members of a society even the rich and powerful must obey the law. | Rule of Law |
Assyria's armies included some of the world's earliest _______, or soldiers who fight while riding horses . | Cavalry |
A ________ is a permanent army of professional. | Standing Army |
______ is a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power. | Tribute |
_______ is money that is used as coins what is it called? | Currency |
A ______ is a carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end what is its name? | Stele |
An ________ is a good or service sold within a country that is produce in another country what is it? | Import |
An ______ is a good or service produce within a country and sold outside the country borders. | Export |
They became experts at what? | At Navigation |
A ____ is an area ruled by a distance country called what? | Colony |
________ ________ is the spreading of cultural traits from one region to another what was it? | It was Cultural Diffusion |
An ______ is a small set of letters or symbols, each of which stand for a single sound what was its name? | Alphabet |